Today In History

October 30, 1887 — Capt. M.V.B. Kite marshaled his forces one evening last week and attacked a regiment of rats that had taken possession and gone into winter quarters in his mill near Marksville, this county. […]

October 29, 1989 — Construction has begun on a sewage treatment plant that should fill Luray’s needs into the next century. “This will double the town’s capacity for treatment, allowing growth in population to at […]

October 28, 1990 — To say that the poultry industry is growing rapidly in Page County is a definite understatement. Some 70,000 birds are killed daily at Rockingham Poultry Inc. at Alma, which is in […]

October 27, 1990 — Luray and Stanley are appealing the preliminary 1990 population count made by the U.S. Bureau of the Census while Page County and the Town of Shenandoah appear content with the figures. […]

October 26, 1889 — A charter, granted by Judge Turner, incorporating the Blue Ridge Iron Co., was admitted to record in the clerk’s office of the county, Oct. 17, 1889.The authorized capital of the company […]

October 25, 1986 — When most of Page County is sound asleep, Mahlon Horst and his wife, Leah, are busy turning pounds of dough into dozens of doughnuts. Horst, a Stanley resident, is the Doughnut […]